Mendez started his career in 1988 as one of the co-founders of the merengue band La Cocoband, along with Alfonzo "Pochy Familia" Vásquez and Bobby Rafael.
Mendez later decided to leave and start his own project in early 1992 with Bobby Rafael which was "Rokabanda", who won Orquesta Revelación del Año in Los Premios Cassandra in 1993.
In 1995, Mendez released his solo album "El Hombre Merengue", which sold 1.5 million copies.
[2] Mendez partially wrote the lyrics; he and Johnny Ventura were the singer, which were then turned inside one of the songs in "Merenboom, Vol.
Méndez said that originally the song was intended to be about happiness while traveling to the Dominican Republic for the holidays.